Briar Rose: Jane Yolen

Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma’s stories of Briar Rose. Becca would have sworn the stories were made up, but on her deathbed Gemma extracts from Becca a promise to fulfill three impossible requests: find the castle, find the prince, and find the spell-maker. Her vow sends Becca on a remarkable journey to uncover the truth...in the forests of Germany patrolled by the German army in World War II. It is a tale of castles, of mists, of thorns; of a beautiful sleeping princess and an astonishing revelation of death and rebirth.